Selection of reference genes for mRNA quantification in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-55

  Brenndörfer, Martin ^a   Boshart, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

GeNorm; MRNA expression; Normalization; Northern blot; Real time PCR; Reference gene

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RNA ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 77952543797     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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